The Free World Art and Thought in the Cold War Hardcover Book Louis Menand

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“This storm is what we call progress”

From the bestselling author of The Metaphysical Club, brilliant illuminations of America yesterday and today. At each step of this journey through American cultural history, Louis Menand has an original point to make: he explains the real significance of William James's nervous breakdown, and of the anti-Semitism in T. S. Eliot's writing. He reveals the reasons for the remarkable commercial successes of William Shawn's New Yorker and William Paley's CBS.

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The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War by Louis Menand

During the Cold War - freedom of expression was vaunted as liberal democracy's most cherished possession—but such freedom was put in service of a hidden agenda.

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